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Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-12-03
REPUBLICAN PAPERS.

1--WE hear that Mr.. V. G. Dockery
will start a republican paper at Rock
ingham, Richmond county. 1t will
be a good one. 1t is rather a healthy
sign to see so many republican papers
shooting up in North Carolina 1t
shows that there is demand among
the white people for local republican
journals. The county government
question, and the oppression by mag
istrates and county commissioners
have done the work for democracy in
North Carolina.
1.-THE local demand for a mouth
piece to talk against county ring rule
and bossism shows how great is the
change among white people. Recent
ly new papers have been started at
Boone and Troy. There are now IS
republican papers printed in this State,
as against 5 two years ago. This
speaks for itself. "-North State.
Yes, there is demand for local
republican papers in different parts Of
the State, but the North State seems
to fall in the same ditch that the Sig
nal fell in some time ago Colored
newspapers are not taken into consld-
Grafton when the time comes for them
to receive aid from the State or
National committee We don't know
the time in the last six years when
there were less than FIVE coiored papers
in the State, and they are generally
republican. The North State and the
Signal don't seem to count colored
papers as republican papers, but they
oW be counted as such, all the same,
not so much by the new converts, but
By the solid, black republicans of the
State.
We have no objection to republic
can papers springing up to advocate
the principles Of the party. There
has been a demand among the colored
people for local republican journals
for some time. and colored men have
made sacrifices to supply the demand
and have had but little encouragement
from white republicans. Next year IL
the great political year. and money
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To Business Men.

We call the attention Of the cusi-
ness men of this city to the value of
the MESSENGER as an advertising me-
dunn. There are about > 1903 colored
people in this city, and nearly all of
them are 70 some extent influenced by
this paper. VIII it not pay you to
ask for a share of their patronage
through their own organ: The cOlored
people spend not less than $4,000
week here for clothing. groceries,
&c, and their trade is principally
cesh. The MESSENGER advises and
urges its readers to patronize the
stores that advertise with Us. Several
of our best houses have found it ex-
pedient to keep their advertisement
in our columns.
The MESSENGER reaches a large
class of people who spend much money
that cannot be reached by any other
paper in the city Is not this worth
your consideration Our rates are
very low, and it will certainly pay
you to advertise in the MESSENGER.
We have a good circulation in the
city and county. as we'll as all the
neighboring towns
Our policy and politics are not di-
rected to suit the business men, but
our readers. If our politics were
anything than what they are we would
have no readers. Business men want
to reach the public, they care not by
what source. Advertise in the MIS-
SENGER. If
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man; but the law says she cannot
marry him. The result is, she is
ruined, the family disgraced, and the
man fees the county for fear of lynch
law. The expenses of the trial are
not worthy of consideration in con-
nection with these great evils.
That is an unjust law that prohibits
one from marrying the person of their
choice The makers of this law say
by their acts that it is better for this
disgrace and trouble to come to this
family than for that woman to have
married the father of her child.
But notice another feature of this
article: the names of the father and
mother are published, and the father
fees the county to save his life. =
How many illegitimate children of
colored mothers in this town and
country whose fathers are white men
moving in the best social and business
circles If the law is just why not
enforce it against such as these?
II will visit the sins of the fathers
unto the children of the third and
fourth generation of them that hate
me" says God. DO the white men
of the country believe this? Then
what unbearable loads of sin they
are heaping up for their posterity.
We believe Gods law to be just, and
more sure of execution than the black
laws of North Carolina
We have in mind another case of
murder which occurred in South
Carolina but few months ago. A
white man showed too much familiari-
ty with colored mans lover, the
colored man objected and was shot
dead. This occurred at a colored fes-
tival. We noticed too much famil-
iarity by a few white men at a colored
festival in this city last week. The.
virtue of our women should not be
bartered off for few dollars. We
could write volume on what we saw
at that festival last week, but those
concerned may imagine what we
would say. We want no social mix
ing of the races while there is law
against it, We want to see white
men exposed and punished as colored
men are. We want to see colored
women punished as white women are.
1t is unfair to the white women and
the colored men. The white men de-
ceive and wrong the white women in
order to shield themselves. Men are
allowed to do as they please, and will
not execute law against themselves
but as soon as one of their women
goes wrong in the same way, they
either hang the colored man or put
the woman in jail If that be law,
is it fair and just to execute itagainst
one and not the other?
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EXCITEMENT IN LEXINGTON.
Sarah Warner Charged with killing
Her (COlOred) Child and is Lodged
i'm Hail.
Special Telegram to the Chronicle.

Special Telegram to the Chronicle.
LEXINGTON, N. c., Nov. 26-Con-
siderable excitement was created mere
this morning when it was learned that
Sarah Warner, young white woman,
daughter of Lewis Warner, respec-
table and well-to-do farmer, living
some seven miles from Lexington. had
been committed to Jail here for the
brutal murder of her own (colored)
child. 1t seems that Sarah Warner
had given birth to a negro child, some
two months or so ago, this so enraged
her father and the family that he told
her repeatedly that the child could
not remain there She, some two
weeks ago, left home, taking the
child with her. She remained away a
day and night, they think, and then
returned without the child. This
naturally aroused suspicion and in
quries were made of her what she had
done with the child. She replied
that she had given it to its father, Il
colored man named Charlie Hanes, to
take care of. This allayed suspicion
to some extent for time, but recent
ly some one had seen the negro Hanes
in Winston or Greensboro, he having
left the county for fear of lynching,
and he denied having the child in his
possession. This caused renewed SEN
sation in the neighborhood and dill
gent search was instituted which re-
suited in finding the mutilated re-
mains of the child some half a mile
from Lewis Warmers house in thick
ct where it had been killed and buried
in the sand The dogs had torn it up,
but it was, l learned fully identified
as the lost child
The above facts I get from Coroner
Hedrick, who, with magistrate Helms
tedler, last night investigated the
case and committed the woman to Jail
to await the action of the grand jury.
Court meets here December 9Th
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ENFORCING A BAD LAW.

Elsewhere we publish an article
headed, Excitement III Lexington. :"
The article is taken from the daily
Chronicle, and is supposed to be true
in every particular This article
shows that a white woman Of respec-
table family was forced to commit
murder. Forced by public sentiment.
backed by the law of the State.
The woman must have loved the
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Everything kept in a well regulated
Grocery Store. Fine Fruits i speci-
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CAROLINA CENTRAL R.R.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
Wilmington. n c., May 10, 1887.

w gtOus n u. May ID 1901
WESTBOUND TRAINS.
MOL No B
May IG. 1857. Dailyex. Dailyex.
Leave Raleigh (R&AA. zoo PM
Wilmington. . AN 3 90
MaxtOn, II -
Hamlet. II 80 pm. AN.
WadesbOrO, ; Is
= Charlotte, 4S2 5arrive
LincOlntOn. Sl7
Shelby, a.
Arrive RutherforSlrOn, . 10
EASTBOUND TRAINS.
No. , No 4.
May 16. 1856 Dailyex. Daiiyex.
Sunday Sunday
Leave Rutherfor'ltOn- : Is AN.
Shelby. Is
IincolntOn, 1907
Charlotte, Il o. Pm. S PM.
Wades0OrO p -
Hamlet 5 3 JAM
Maxton. ; -
Arrive Wilmington. 905 500
Raleigh, (R&Al SS5
Trains Nos /. and make close connection
at Marion TO aud from Fayetteville, Grce:is-
boro and other points on G. f. s y Y. Ry.
At WadesbOrO with trains to and from
Cheraw, Florence and Charleston
At Lineolnton to aud from Hickory. Ielloir
and points on e. 4 L. Narrow Gauge Ey-
Trains Nos B and make close connection
at Hanlet with trains to and from Raleigh
Through sleeping ears between Whining
ton and Charlotte and Charlotte and Raleigh
Take train No for S;atesyiile and stations
on the W. n. c. r. r. and points west.
Take train No. , for CileFaw. Florence
Charleston Savannah and Florida. also for
Fayetteville aud e. +. & Y. v. stations
Train No > connects at Wilmington with
w. 3 w. No. IA and ". e. a A. No. q.
Take train No 3 for Sparsanburs, Green
vile, Athens, Atlanta and all points south
west; also for Asheyiile via Charlotte aud
SpartauhurS..
No. , connects at Wilmington with W. a
W. L. r. No y, Train No 4 connects at
Wilmington with W. W. No. - Local
Freight Nos. ) and 6 fri-weekly lefuceu
Wilmington and IauEinburr
Local Freight Nos and : fri-weeklv
between Laurinburg aud Charlotte.
Local Freight Nos and 10 tri-veeklv
between Charlotte and Ru,herf0rsifon.
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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-08-24

Hill for some time, seriously i'll, returned
home Monday.
Miss Sallie Jones, of Laurens, and Miss Eva
Aull, of Edgefield, are in YorkvilIe, the guests
of Mrs. w. w. Daniel.
Mr.. Henry Thomas and wife, of Florence,
and his sister, Mrs. Thomas Johnson, of Kings
tree, are in Yorkville, visiting their parents.
Miss Sallie Ingold and Miss Mamie Low
rance, of this place, are visiting Mrs. J. B.
Glover, aunt of the latter, at Statesville, N. c.
Mrs. w. G. Latimer left here last Monday,
for New York and Baltimore, where she will
spend about a month posting herself on the
fashions in dress making and millinery.
A party consisting of Mrs. Eccles, Miss
Mary O'Farrel, Misses Kate, Minnie and Ag-
mes Cooley, Miss Sallie Parker, and Messrs.
Daniel O'Leary and George Cooley have gone
to Sparrow's Springs, in CASTOR county, N. c.
On Monday last we received a pleasant call
from Mr.. Robert P. Smith, formerly a resi-
dent of our town and a son of Maj. Myles
Smith, of Clover. Since the war he has made
his home in Rusk county, Texas. Accom-
panied by his wife and two daughters, he is
visiting his parents, brothers and friends in
the Glover neighborhood. 1t is his intention
to leave for his home in Texas on Monday
next.
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NOTES.

The Charlotte Chronicle Of Friday says that
Smith & Ripley, principal contractors FOR the
grading of the Charleston, Cincinnatia and Chi
cago Railroad, whose office is in that city, dis
bursed on Thursday to the sub-contractors
$3.50, 900, the amount of last months estimates.
On Saturday, Griffin e. Gorton paid off the
employees on their contract near town, disburs-
ing about 81 1000.
Col. II. +. Matson, chief engineer, was in
Johnson City, Tenn, last week, and informed
the editor Of the Comet that he will have an
engineer corps there by the 18th of September,
for the purpose Of locating the road from john
son City to the coal fields, and that work will
be commenced on that portion Of the road
about the middle of October.
Messrs. B. w. Butler and A. w. Jones, two
of the members of Capt. Whitner's corps, who
surveyed the line Of the Augusta division from
Newberry to Sharon Church, in this county,
arrived here last Saturday, having walked the
whole distance from Augusta to Sharon for the
purpose of making a typographical sketch of
the country traversed by that route. Mr.. But
Ter is now engaged in the chief engineers Of
flee at Rock Hill, and Mr.. Jones returned to
Augusta.
In regard to the Augusta division, it is stated
on the authority of Senator Butler, that the
Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Company
did not get possession of the property for the
purpose of killing it, but to construct and
equip the line. The reason, they say, that they
are not pushing this branch is because the con-
tract calls for the completion of the main line
by a certain time, and it will require all their
energies to carry it out.
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was discovered in its inception and quick
ly extinguished. These attempted incen-
diaries are inexplicable by any reasonable
hypothesis. and keep our people in excite
ment and suspense day and night. 1t is
thought by some that the demon is among
US every day, participating in all social
and business transactions with a sane de-
meanor but when night comes upon him
he is seized by the fury and formidable
pugnacity Of %incendiary insanity and re-
sorts to the torch of destruction.
The firm of Lipscomb & Howe has dis
solved its copartnership, the stock of goods
having been bought by D. d. CASTOR.
The vigilance of an engineer prevented
an accident last Friday that might have
proven disastrous. The south-bound pas
senger train, No. so, stopped near Broad
river on account of a defective engine. No.
90, south-bound freight, followed five min
utes behind the passenger train and was
making good time, down grade, through
cuts and around curves, and came within
a cars length of trimming into the rear end
of the passenger train.
M. l.. Ross is in bed very sick.
Andrew Goforth lost his little boy last
Thursday by diphtheria. He was attend
ed by Drs. Black and Ramseur, but their
combined medical skill could not " the
little sufferer.
r. M. Roark, of Antioch, was in town
to-day and reports that crops are very
good, and that little if any damage in his
section was done by the recent freshets.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-08-24
Correspondence of the Yorkvillc Enquirer.
LETTER FROM FORT MILL.

FORT MILL, August 22.--"Whoop!
Who-o-p! Who-o-o-op!" has been the
general salutation among the juvenile por-
ton of our community for some time past.
If you chance to inquire what is the mat
ter, you receive a stare of blank astonish-
ment, which seems to write on your per-
ceptive faculties, in words of fire, II
thought you had sense enough to know
that I have who-who-Who-o-oping cough"
With this whitening, though silent lex
cept the whoop) rebuke, the youngster
goes on his way sadly rejecting on the OBJ
tuseness of human perception, and without
any sign of rejoicing.
Mumps has also visited some localities,
and there are one or two cases OF serious
illness in the country; but generally the
health of this section is better than usual.
However, the warm days of September
may generate many cases OF malarial dis
eases.
For five weeks, nearly every day, there
has been rain somewhere in sight. Cotton
on sandy lands and on rich clay has been
forced too much to weed, but on poor red
lands not much damage has been done.
The river has again been over q great deal
of corn, and it has cut off the loWland crop
considerably; but there is every reason to
believe that a suficiency will be raised IN
the township.
Times are dull, and factories and rail-
roads afford general topics of conversation.
Our factory is progressing toward compile
ton. The main building is under con-
struction, and twenty-one cottages for op-
eratives are nearly built. AS to railroads,
we talk about the number ofbridges across
Catawba river. If the Midland goes to
Charlotte, there will be five bridges span
ming the river in an arc subtended by a
chord of twenty-five miles. This looks
like a substitution of railways for high
ways. However, we want no more coun-
ty subscriptions for them. ANON.
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>TTHE A N

A new Bank, to be known as the Exchange
Bank, WAS organized in this place on the 18th
instant and chartered by the Secretary OF State
on Friday last. The following are the officers
and directors T. S. Jetferys, President; Jos. r.
Wallace, e-President; I. D. Witherspoon,
C. E. Spencer and F. A. Gilbert, Directors.
The capital stock is forty thousand dollars in
shares of one hundred dollars each, all of which
has been subscribed and one fourth paid in.
The remainder is payable one-fourth on the 10Th
day of September next, one fourth six months
after organization, and the balance at the end
of twelve months from the date Of charter.
bank will business on the first
day of next month.
The president and vice-president were elect
ed from among the directors, and each director
is required to have in his own right not less
than ten shares Of the capital stock. The stock
holders are liable for the debts of the bank to
the extent of their respective shares and five per
centum thereof in addition. The officers are
prohibited, either directly or indirectly, from
borrowing money from the bank, under penal
ty of such fine and imprisonment, after in
dictment and conviction, as the Court may see
proper to impose.
The institution is authorized to receive and
pay out the lawful currency of the country,
deal in exchange, gold and silver coin, incur
rent paper, public and other securities, and
discount notes, bills of exchange, bonds and
other evidences of debt, and to loan money on
such terms as may be agreed upon, subject to
the usury laws of the State; but is prohibited
from investing in mortgages of real estate, at
any one time, more than an amount equal to
one-half of the capital stock.
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Jake Pe%ttyjohn, convicted in 1860, in For,
syth, Ga, of a murder committed in that
county, but who broke Jail before the day
appointed for the execution and has been
at large ever since, was arrested in Indian
Territory last week and will be brought
back for execution. Prof. Spencer F.
Baird, of the United States fish commits
sion, died last Friday at Woods Hole,
Mass .".""."The continued rains in the
tobacco belt have materially damaged the
growing crop of tobacco in the past few
days, causing it to spot and burn.At
Austin, Arkansas, Dudley and Oscar
Adams, brothers, were digging a we'll in
which gas accumulated. Men outside
threw a Shovel of fire into it, when it ex-
ploded, killing both brothers Instant
iy.""...Complete return from all the
counties in kentucky show the following
result: Buckner, 1869; Bradley, 49,
GOA; Ford, $500; Garden, 4,4S5. The ma
iority of Buckner over Bradley is IT,
0l5."..""'Tennessee will vote on the pro-
hibition question IN the 18th of next
month. THE steamer city Of Montreal
with 239 passengers and a crew of 80 men,
bound from New York for Liperpool, was
burned at sea on the 18th instant. All on
board except thirteen are known to be
saved, and they are thought to have been
picked up by a passing vessel.
eclipse of the sun last Wednesday wa Wis
ible at Berlin; but on account of the cloud
ed condition Of the sky but limited scien-
tifc observations could be made.''.The
total number of deaths by the Chatsworth
bridge disaster is 70. The responsibility
is fixed by the %coroner's jury upon the
section master, who has been arrested.
The damage suits likely to arise from the
accident will bankrupt the road.
Mexicans charged with the murder of an
American citizen, have been sentenced by
the tribunal at Santa Rosa, Mexico, to ten
years imprisonment each."'T. G. VOL
folk, who recently, near Macon, Ga,
murdered his father and eight other MEM
bers of the family, Indignantly denies that
to make it appear as a huge case of grand
mnI.
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For the YOrkyiIle Enquirer.
THAT GRADED SCHOOL.

Mr. Editor: I have been noticing with
a great deal of interest that the people in
your town are beginning to talk about
having a graded school. Now I think this
is a step in the right direction, and 1 am
glad to see the people showing such good
practical common sense. In the opinion
of some of us, out here in the country,
Yorkville needs a good graded school far
more than she needed a railroad. Now
there are some of US out in the country
who have very poor school advantages. In
fact we hardly have any worth the name.
We feel we can't give our children money,
but some of us do want to give them an
Notwithstanding that can e be
taken from them. Now W. hope some
day to be able to move to town and edu-
cate our children, and live there. If you
build up a good, strong central school, we
will move to Yorkville to school our chill
dren. If not, then we will have to 60 to
Rock Hill or Gastonia or Gaffney City or
somewhere else. We are hoping York
vile will not be so blind as to sleep over
her interest in this matter any longer:
COUNTRYMAN.
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ATTEMPTED ARSON.

On Sunday night, the 18th instant, an at
tempt was made to burn a negro house belong
ing to Mrs. Kate Williamson, a widow lady
living near Brattonsville, in this county. The
house was occupied by a colored man, who
fortunately discovered the attempt in time to
save his house from destruction, and proba-
bly, his own life. Kerosene and shavings had
been scattered promiscuously around and the
inf1ammable material set on fire. Boney Low
ry and his son, and Bill Lowry and Violet
Bratton, all colored, have been committed to
Jail, charged with this attempt at arson.
On yesterday, Green B. Sarratt and Logan
Gibson, white men, were lodged in Jail on a
commitment by Trial Justice Camp, charging
them with being guilty of the attempt at incen-
diarism in the town of Blacks on the night Of
the 10th instant, particulars of which are given
to-day in our Blacks correspondence.